American - Critic | December 5, 1940 -
Martha Stewart contributes more to our civility than the Baptist church.
Dave Hickey
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Where do you learn how to act? Not at church. America is a lot more like pagan Rome than we think. We still sacrifice to objects to gain our social goals.
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It used to be that if you stood in front of a painting you didn't understand, you'd have some obligation to guess. Now you don't.
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I'm retiring because my time is up.
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My mother was an economics professor. I'm proficient in math, and statistics, game theory, symbolic logic and all of that.
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I hate all that woozy political and psychotherapeutic crap applied to books and art.
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Art editors and critics - people like me - have become a courtier class.
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If I go to London, everyone wants to talk about Damien Hirst. I'm just not interested in him. Never have been.
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